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Software Developer in Atlanta

19 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 19 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job
85%reported bachelor’s degree
  • Bachelor’s degree85%
  • Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree5%
  • Master’s degree5%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 15-1252.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

This sample is small enough that one posting moves any percentage by more than a couple of points, so we are not calling anything low-signal here. Read the numbers above as a direction, not a measurement.

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$83,400
10th percentile
$132,960
median
$178,330
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Anduril Industries · Collabera · Datadog · Fanatics Commerce · FanDuel · Intuitive Surgical · MongoDB · System Canada Technologies · Zinnia

The same role elsewhere

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